Abstract
The autobiographically modulated poetry and prose collection City of God (1994) and other published works by the late Gil Cuadros (1962–96) survive as an important set of AIDS testimonials, the first of their kind in Chicano literary production. This paper explores Cuadros’s preoccupation with processes of identificatory signification and corporeal scripting. I regard his writings as a sustained textual response to the multiple signifying systems that battle over the Chicano queer body, which is always an ambivalently U.S. body, and, in his texts, a body living and dying with AIDS as well. Accordingly, my main interest lies in plotting how Cuadros’s work confronts and evades the sociocultural imperative to make of the queer Chicano subject a body that can be read,known, and potentially punished.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
